----- Original Message ----- From: "Collin Grady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:19 PM Subject: Re: Installed Cygwin, no 'cc'?
> The trick is to go through one by one and select them all ;-) > -Collin Grady > > Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. > yes, but a far better, more foolproof, and easier solution would simply to include in setup.exe an easily invoked option, say, a single checkbox, that would allow someone to download everything. it's a REAL PAIN checking all those boxes, and the process of learning that one MUST do that to get everything is even more painful. i speak as a--rapidly aging--cygwin newbie who had to check ALL the boxes in the not too distant past. keep in mind that the people who want to install EVERYTHING are disproportionately newbies, so porviding a simple way to allow that to happen seems sensible. gene -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/